Likelihood

by Mickey Edwards and A. W. F. Edwards

Dr Edwards' stimulating and provocative book advances the thesis that the appropriate axiomatic basis for inductive inference is not that of probability, with its addition axiom, but rather likelihood - the concept introduced by Fisher as a measure of relative support amongst different hypotheses. Starting from the simplest considerations and assuming no more than a modest acquaintance with probability theory, the author sets out to reconstruct nothing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521082994
• ISBN13: 9780521082990
• Release Date: March 1972
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.